Garzas Creek, originally Arroyo de las Garzas (Creek of the Herons), is a tributary of the San Joaquin River draining the eastern slopes of part of the Diablo Range within the San Joaquin Valley of California.

[1][2][3] The closest populated place was the former settlement and railroad station of Linora that is 0.38 miles south of Garzas Creek.

[4] Arroyo de las Garzas was a watering place on El Camino Viejo in the San Joaquin Valley and its first settler was a deserter from the Spanish cavalry in 1820.

Later the same year, Spanish cavalry attempting to recover the deserter and a group of fugitive neophytes from the missions, fought an action with them.

It was a frame house built with lumber shipped around Cape Horn and hauled to the site with oxen.